"apt-get remove" don't remove the stuff?

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Sat Nov 29 19:17:42 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 03:04 +0800, howard chen wrote:
> So does it mean when I want to remove package from system, I should
> always use purge instead of remove?

Purge when you don't want to keep the config files. OTOH, keeping them
does not usually hurt, unless you install/remove lots of stuff, which
will make /etc untidy





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